Religion has become so entwined with politics that you'd think we were elescting a Pastor in Chief instead of a President. Ick. Makes me wanna upchuck.

Part of the problem is the was history is NOT taught in our public schools. The average adult has NO idea that NONE of the men who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights believed in a "personal" god. Some of the signers may have, but not Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, et al. I think Adams 1 & 2 were Unitarians.

But what ALL of them believed in was a free and independent nation that was NOT under the invisible thumb of a supernatural being. I'm surprised there haven't been more earthquakes in Virginia and other places where such giants are buried.

They didn't go far enough in forbidding Congress from establishing a state religion. They should have prohibited the government from behaving AS IF there is a state religion - no prayers in public schools or at sessions of Congress, no ending speeches with "God bless..," no White House Christmas tree, etc. -- and certainly nothing about God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Putting God on the currency was a major slip-up.

God wasn't put on money, or in the pledge of allegiance until 1952, or 1953 when the U.S. was fighting the devil himself in the form of communism. I wonder how many other atheists see the cold war as a religious battle between good and evil.